Milana Melnik and her mother Natalia Ganiberzina were convicted of “active participation in group actions that grossly violate public order.”
46-year-old Natalia is from Lida and is a hairdresser by profession. Her 25-year-old daughter Milana graduated from Minsk State Linguistic University and worked as an English teacher in the capital, and now teaches online. Probably both women live in Grodno.
It is unknown what sentence the family received. Judging by social networks, at least for Milana it is not associated with imprisonment: she continues to maintain her page. But there hasn’t been a single post on her mother’s account since September 2023.
Trial outcome 22.05.2024:
unknown years of restriction of freedom without direction
Ruslan Musvydas will be tried for participating in protests. Artist-vocalist (soloist) in the National Academic Concert Orchestra of Belarus named after M. Finberg.
He won many festivals and vocal competitions, and now he chooses the winners himself: he was on the jury of the X Factor Belarus project, which took place on the Belarus 1 TV channel. Musvidas appears at most state concerts - at holidays, Slavic Bazaar, republican prom and so on, and appears in New Year's television concerts. He also sings during elections - on the single voting day, February 25, 2024, he performed at an “entertainment program for residents of the Zavodskoy District” at one of the polling stations.
On June 25, 2024, the singer’s ex-wife, Veronica, was convicted under the same article.
Trial outcome 26.07.2024:
unknown years of restriction of freedom without direction
On May 15, 2023, ONT released the propaganda film “Killer Package” of Death: Who and How Wanted to Commit a Terrorist Attack on Victory Day,” which told the details of the case. It was reported there that allegedly the KGB, on the eve of Victory Day on May 9, 2023, “prevented a terrorist attack under the supervision of Kiev." They said that the explosives were in electric stoves, which were sent to the detainees via parcels. The organizer of the action was named 23-year-old Belarusian Valery Vodin, who fought in Ukraine.
The video said that parcels with electric stoves containing explosives were delivered to the Minsk SDEK point in Kamennaya Gorka on March 21, 2023 from Kyiv via Italy. 29-year-old Victoria Volchek confirmed during interrogation that she received the package - Valery Vodin asked her to receive the package. BSU student Anna Savochkina and her mother Tatyana Rusak took the tile from Volchek and buried it in the cemetery in Kolodishchi. The second tile was picked up by dental technician Andrei Grigoriev and taken to the gardening partnership "Avtoremontnik 124" near Olekhnovichi.
Trial outcome 09.08.2024
20 years of imprisonment in colony under enhanced security conditions (trial in absentia).
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